Alzheimer’s Disease: What If There Was A Cure?

Dr. Mary Newport

Mary T. Newport, M.D. grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended Xavier University for pre-medicine, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1978. She trained in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati and completed her fellowship in neonatology, the care of sick and premature newborns,at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, SC. She practiced neonatology in Florida since 1983 and served as founding medical director for two newborn intensive care units. After taking some time off to care for Steve, she resumed medical practice at the opposite end of the spectrum and is now making home visits to patients who are in end-of-life hospice care. Dr. Newport has been married to Steve Newport since 1972 and they have two daughters and a grandson.

In 2008, she wrote an article, “What If There Was a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease and No One Knew?” relaying her family’s experience with this disease and her research into a dietary intervention that may benefit persons with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. September 27, 2011, marked the date of the release of her book, Alzheimer’s Disease: What If There Was A Cure? The Story of Ketone.The Second Edition was released in April 2013. The book has also been translated and published in German, Japanese and French. Her latest effort was released in August 2015, entitled The Coconut Oil and Low-Carbohydrate Solution for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Other Diseases,a practical guide to using coconut oil and MCT oil and a sensible approach to lowering carbs in the diet to increase ketones, which provide alternative fuel for the brain

This just skims the surface of what Coconut Oil did for my husband, Steve Newport in under 2 months:

An Update from Dr. Mary Newport

Steve & Mary Dec. 2008 (6mths after starting coconut oil)

February 23, 2016

It has been nearly 8 years since Steve improved with coconut oil. He improved very significantly and steadily the first year and remained stable for 2 more years. He began having seizures in summer 2013 starting with a head injury from a fall and did not fully recover. In spite of this serious setback, I feel it was well worth the extra quality time that we had together as a family. He remained in our home with the help of our wonderful caregivers and had minimal further worsening over the next two years. I cannot help but think that ketones played an important role in all of this. Although he lost his battle with Alzheimer’s on January 2, 2016, at age 65, there is now at least hope for others who are at risk or in earlier stages of this horrible disease, and their families might actually win their fight. We will continue to bring more awareness and research to this and future projects to find a cure.
I want to thank everyone who has sent me testimonials for your loved ones who have tried coconut oil and or MCT oil. I have received over 400, and while some people have no response, the vast majority has reported improvements in cognitive functions and overall quality of life. I am overjoyed that so many people have benefited from this food-based intervention as my late husband Steve! These testimonials have helped to get grants for research at the University of South Florida (USF) Byrd Alzheimer Institute, where humane animal studies have been completed and a clinical trial of coconut oil in 65 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease is underway, funded by an anonymous foundation. This is a pilot study that will look at whether there is symptomatic improvement and also if this treatment will delay progression to Alzheimer’s disease. Several small and larger studies are taking place in the USA and Japan and other areas of the world, and a much larger three-year study of MCT oil for prevention of Alzheimer’s in people with mild cognitive impairment will take place in Canada, funded by the Alzheimer’s Association.

Steve asked for his brain to be donated to the Florida Brain Bank which is a research study for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. We hope to find what he truly suffered from, be it Alzheimer’s or Lewy Body, or a combination of these two horrible diseases, and if ketones produced a visible impact on his brain to aid in the search for a cure.

Ketones as an alternative fuel are also under study at USF in the lab under the direction of Dominic D’Agostino, Ph.D. for the treatment of cancer, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), wound healing, oxygen toxicity, epilepsy, and status epilepticus, using ketogenic diets that contain medium chain triglycerides and also ketone esters. The cancer studies are looking at combinations of ketogenic diets with hyperbaric oxygen and glucose lowering substances to further enhance the effect on killing cancer cells, which thrive on glucose but cannot use ketones while preserving normal cells. Results of several of these studies have now been published and others are forthcoming.

Studies of ketone esters for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases urgently need to be undertaken but funding for mass production of the ester and clinical testing has not yet materialized. For now, you can provide ketones to the brain as an alternative fuel by consuming foods that contain medium chain triglycerides to produce ketones. What do you have to lose?

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MCT 143 PROMOTION TODAY ON PRUVIT WEBSITE: MCT 143 is on the Pruvit website today - buy two get 1 free - total of 45 packets (15 ml each) for $98. I am not sure if this is permanent or just a flash sale. This is the formula I used for Steve that helped him improve so much. It is a combination of MCT oil (from coconut oil) and virgin organic coconut oil as well as pure concentrated phosphatidylcholine which is abundant in the brain and in cell membranes and is a precursor to formation of acetylcholine, which is important to memory. This is a great replacement also for Fuel for Thought, which has stopped production You can purchase MCT 143 at marynewport.pruvitnow.com. If you are a new customer, you may need to sign up, log out and then sign in again to see the promotion in the "store" under "supplements". Costs only $37 per year to be a promoter and you can potentially get free product and commissions. Also, more information on my website - coconutketones.com with a link to Pruvit. Mary Newport MD ...

PRUVIT - EPIK EVENT - NEW KETO PRODUCTS ANNOUNCED. I was a speaker for this event this weekend and there are some amazing new products coming out soon that contain the KETONE betahydroxybutyrate, including KetoKalm, a tea with other ingredients that promote sleep, a broth that will help replenish minerals lost during diuresis that occurs early in ketosis and awesome new flavors of the KETONE salts. If you have ever considered a fast, they are offering a combination package called the 60 Hour Reboot to support a three day fast, consisting of the tea, broth, KetoMax and new product called Signal OS, that contains an optimal dose of AC-11 which promotes DNA repair. If you have considered trying the ketone salts, this is also a greast way to sample several of the products. Also coming soon, MCT 143, a combination of MCT and coconut oil based on what I used to help Steve, with phosphatidylcholine for brain and memory support, that Pruvit helped me get to all of you. There is more information on how to use coconut oil, MCT oil and ketone salts with free information you can print out on my website and a link to the Pruvit website at www.coconutketones.com. Or you can go directly to Pruvit at marynewport.pruvitnow.com. ...

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MCT 1:4:3 is on sale all day today, buy 2 get one free, which comes to $98 for 45 servings. This is the MCT and coconut oil combination that I gave Steve that helped him improve so much from Alzheimer's in 2008. I added soy lecithin back then but this product has the concentrated phosphatidylcholine (PC) I was I was trying to give him with the lecithin. PC is abundant in cell membranes especially in the brain and important to memory. It comes in 15 ml sachets, easy to carry to work or travel or for use in assisted living with doctor's order. I am grateful to the Pruvit company for helping me bring this formulation to the market to help others. You can find a link to Pruvit ketone salts and now MCT 1:4:3 on my website at www.coconutketones.com or directly at marynewport.pruvitnow.com. Look for diet guidelines for MCT and coconut oil on my website and lots of other good information.